composing stick
a portable, adjustable, usually metal tray that the compositor holds in one hand while placing in it type gathered with the other hand.
Origin of composing stick
1- Also called job stick.
Words Nearby composing stick
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How to use composing stick in a sentence
He did work till midnight; then—in spite of the threat that he would be discharged—he laid down his composing stick on the case.
The Book of Courage | John Thomson FarisAs the type is set up it is removed from the composing-stick to long forms called galleys.
Up To Date Business | VariousI know many actors who are practical printers, fellows who can wield a composing-stick as deftly as a fighting sword.
My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson | George ThompsonGalleyA shallow tray used by compositors to hold type after the lines have been set and transferred from the composing stick.
Type Cases and Composing-room furniture | A. A. StewartThus we now have the expressions: a "composing-room," a "composing-stick," etc.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) | Elbert Hubbard
British Dictionary definitions for composing stick
printing a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used
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